Interesting thoughtful article on yoga

[Jim Pickles]

An article worth reading, for all types of practitioners - some ideas that apply to all forms of exercise in there:

https://yogainternat...2027e3-88681249

Wow! That was a long URL! (goes on for 3 lines in its original version)

Jim.

[Rik]

https://yogainternat...d-queen-no-more is the cleaned up link.

To me, this suggests that the global yoga demographic is more interested in intuition, charisma, and an exclusively pranic model of healing than in the biomedical methods it distrusts, but then relies on when things really go south.

This is a very salient quote, and it's applicable to more than just yoga. Your system need not be good, as long as it is marketed well.

[SwissDanny]

Yes interesting from a Crossfit trainers perspective too...

At the most basic level, because yogis are worrying about headstands while many Crossfitters merrily bash out kipping headstand pushups... and since hardly anyone can strict press their bodyweight, they are basically using their head as a piledriver... and meanwhile hesitate to put both arms overhead too closely in case they have shoulder impingement.

More fundamentally, to what extent are challenging and therefore inherently more dangerous movements a laudable goal for development in any "practise" and if so where do you draw the line and or allow participants to make an educated choice how far they push it. If you wrap everyone in cotton wool, reducio ad absurdum yoga becomes a long shavasana etc.

[Jim Pickles]

Swissdanny: "if so where do you draw the line and or allow participants to make an educated choice how far they push it. If you wrap everyone in cotton wool"....

An educated choice: There are some postures only suitable for highly practiced people with the right body type. There are many others which are said to be "dangerous", but in fact are safe if approached properly and with due regard to technique (ST includes many of these). And we know that many of the outrageous claims of the danger of some stretches only arises because they are undertaken without technique, care, and in a competitive manner.

[Kit_L]

My dear departed friend Mel Siff said it first and best: "There are no dangerous exercises—only dangerous ways of doing exercises." Such a simple concept, so rarely enacted.